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People left objects in tombs for all of the following except: |
Asking for help in conceiving children |
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Storage of magical equipment |
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Prayers for personal protection and help in family finances |
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Activation of the StarGate |
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:41 pm
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Link to the original article: http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=5924
Egypt Museum airs 1,000 years of jackal god gifts By Reuters First Published: March 2, 2007 CAIRO: A thousand years' worth of offerings to an ancient Egyptian jackal god are the subject of an exhibition that opened on Thursday at Cairo's Egyptian Museum. The exhibition, "Anubis, Upwawet and Other Deities", is based on votive offerings that British archaeologist Gerald Wainwright found in a tomb built around 1800 or 1900 BC near the southern town of Assiut. The tomb originally belonged to a local hereditary prince, but for more than 1,000 years local people used it as a shrine for personal devotion, filling it with tablets dedicated to the local jackal god Upwawet. "The stelae (tablets) offer us unrivalled evidence about the social history of the region. Much may be gleaned from the names and occupations of the people (who dedicated them to Upwawet)," the museum said in a statement. About 100 of the 400 stelae are made of terracotta, or baked clay, a material not used for stelae at other Egyptian sites. Many are relatively crude and most are covered with pictures of jackals and other dog-like animals. "You learn from these about common people, their situations, their families and sometimes how they lived and why they are coming to devote this stela," said museum director Wafaa El-Saddik.
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 12:48 pm
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Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 6:38 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:19 pm
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Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2007 6:01 am
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Posted: Wed Jul 25, 2007 2:13 pm
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 7:15 am
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Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 1:39 pm
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The tomb was extensively blessed, and established as a shrine to a person's kA- the spirits of the ancestors, in turn, were considered as divinized humans and ideal go-betweens to communicate the needs of their descendents to the spirit world.
But you are right in that ancient Egyptian religion was very much an immanent theology- gods were not, in the vast majority of cases, perceived of as being separated from the world of the living. They were very much a part of it, and Their influence could be felt in many aspects of life. The curator of a local Egyptian museum here feels that the religion of the common folk (as opposed to fancy State/Temple religion) was probably primarily expressed as a communion with the gods in the roles through which people passed each day- mother, artisan, doctor, scribe, potter, etc. There are many gods and many ways to encounter Them from day to day. I find this approach to spirituality both practical and inspirational- that special blend which is so typical of the ancient Egyptian worldview- the gods of the ancient Egyptians were a vital part of their world Who taught them a great deal about life and how to live it.
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